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“He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.”
― Mary Oliver White Heron Rises Over Blackwater

“We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.”
― Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith

“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.”
― Karen Swallow Prior

“Do and dare what is right, not swayed by the whim of the moment. Bravely take hold of the real, not dallying now with what might be. Not in the flight of ideas but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of living. God’s command is enough and your faith in him to sustain you. Then at last freedom will welcome your spirit amid great rejoicing.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics